![]() ![]() It turns out many such adapters have no jumpers at all, or else jumpers for Master and Slave, but not Cable Select. The existing DVD-RW drive in the machine is set to cable select, so I presume I would need to do the same on the SATA to IDE adapter. ![]() ![]() So, I'm thinking of buying a SATA to IDE adapter to convert the SATA Blu-ray drive to an IDE drive. (There is an AHCI patch, but for this model it does not work for SATA optical drives.) Unfortunately, it does not work in Windows 10, because the Mac emulates IDE for this and does not support AHCI. So I ran a SATA cable to the optical drive bay and it works fine in OS X. Unfortunately, the optical drive bays in the machine support only IDE / PATA, and not SATA. One of the things I added was a SATA Blu-ray drive. I'm in the midst of upgrading an ancient Mac Pro. ![]()
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